In an interview with the Toronto Star, mayoral runner-up George Smitherman said he has agreed to sit alongside winner Rob Ford at a January fundraiser chaired by Mr. Ralph Lean to wipe out candidates' campaign debts, including Ford's and Sarah Thomson's $100,000 shortfall.

The article discusses whether 2010's first municipal prohibition on electoral funding by businesses and unions changed the way in which Toronto's mayoralty campaign was run, and whether it will be possible to tell via the candidates' fiscal disclosures in April, 2011.